Motivational Quotes

Kindness

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

3.

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

4.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

6.

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Ray, Randolph

7.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Penn, William

8.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

9.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

10.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Nonpareil

12.

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

13.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

14.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

16.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

17.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

20.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

21.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

24.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

25.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

26.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

28.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

29.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

30.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

32.

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

33.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

34.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

35.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

36.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

37.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Sweetland, Ben

38.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

39.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

40.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see